Re: mplayer codecs
Micha Feigin verraste ons met de boodschap: > I installed mplayer from binary (the debs from marillat.free.fr). I was > wondering if it is possible to install new codecs without recompiling > the binary. > Namely, I'm interested in installing the realplayer codecs at the > moment. on http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/dload.html , you can find some download links for extra codecs. in my experience, they Just Work(tm) when you drop them in /usr/lib/win32 greetings, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts in gtk programs (mozilla, evolution etc)
> I'm using mozilla for browsing, and evolution for mailing and some other > gtk programs. I have a high resolution laptop lcd and so I need large > font sizes to read without my eyes getting tired. As far as I > understand, I have to change the font settings in the gnome control > center: As soon as I set all fonts to 14pt there, everything is fine, at > least as long as I use gnome. But I don't like gnome as a desktop > environment (I use plain IceWM), and without starting gnome-session or > gnome-control-center, the fonts in gtk apps stay small (I don't know > what the default size is, must be 10 or so). So long story short > question: How do I make the font size change permanent WITHOUT > gnome-session? This is also of interest for the gdm login screen... to load all your gnome settings, you should use gnome-settings-daemon. I have recently built an internet kiosk running galeon, using a custom gdm session (and deleting all others) #!/bin/sh # /etc/gdm/Sessions/Kiosk gnome-settings-daemon & galeon -f & exec /etc/X11/Xsession /usr/bin/icewm-gnome # EOF your gdm login screen has nothing to do with your user's settings, so just use the graphical greeter and write your own theme :-) greetings, -- Joris PS: is there anybody interested in a mini-howto? the kiosk is pretty secure with icewm restricting many window operations and no xterm on the box, and extremely robust mounting everything read-only and using tmpfs (auto-resizing ramdisk) for /tmp /var and /home -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 mice (USB+PS2) simultaniously for GPM, How?
> Some programs (X, Windows) seems to be able to handle more than 2 mice > these days. > > How can I use both touch pad (PS2) and mouse (USB) at the same time on > my notebook's console screen? I love 80*25 Linux console :-) > > Currently, I change entry in /etc/gpm.conf and restart gpm but this only > allow me to switch them. I can not use both. you could try putting this line in gpm.conf: append="-M -m /dev/psaux -t autops2" but be sure not to repeat both if they use different protocols, because then X will not be able to distinguish the two signals greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: IDE for java
> When you say "make", is that the same make program most c++ programs use? > If so, i didn't know one could use it with other languages. I'll have to start >learning it then. > I know there is a java specific make too: jmake. > Any experience with that one? there is another java specific make replacement, based on xml. it's called ant, a project of the apache software foundation. see http://ant.apache.org/ for more information -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome-panel drawer problem
Hi, yesterday I upgraded my unstable box, and since then the 'drawers' in the gnome panels are avoided by new/maximized windows. in general, the gnome2 panels and applets seem to have much less functionality than their 1.4 variants. is that intentionally or is gnome2-panel just not completed yet? -- thanks ahead, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gvim / vim -g WON'T WORK
> When I try to run gvim I get this error: > > > E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time > > What does it mean ? How can it be solved ? > I'm not somebody who thinks every prog should be > graphical but it's easier to have more than one file > open so I can view them at the same time try apt-getting vim-gtk -- the other Joris :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slide show software
William Bradley verraste ons met de boodschap: > Does Debian in their "deb" files have anything that will allow me to run my photo's > as a > slide show on my computer? I know you've gotten some helpful answers (I prefer gqview myself), but keeping in mind some saying about giving a man a carper versus teaching him to fish ;-), here's how you can look for answers yourself: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search image slideshow chbg - A tool for changing the desktop background image in X11 feh - imlib2 based image viewer gtksee - GTK-based clone of ACDSee (an image viewer) igal - online image gallery generator kuickshow - KDE image/slideshow viewer pornview - Image and movie viewer/manager qiv - A quick image viewer for X zoph - Web based digital image presentation and management system xslideshow - An Image Viewer on X with Animation display function. "apt-cache show " gives you more information about the particular package, and "apt-get install " fetches and installs it onto your computer. welcome to debian, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: utility to get daily NIC input/output total throughput
> Is there any command line utility to get daily total ethernet > inbound/outbound throughput? I'd like to generate a monthly report with > shell script. Any suggestion highly appreciated. you could use 'ifconfig', but then it would be smart to edit /etc/init.d/networking to save the count before resetting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[2]: utility to get daily NIC input/output total throughput
> > > Is there any command line utility to get daily total ethernet > > > inbound/outbound throughput? I'd like to generate a monthly report with > > > shell script. Any suggestion highly appreciated. > > > > you could use 'ifconfig', but then it would be smart to edit > > /etc/init.d/networking to save the count before resetting > > > How to reset the TX/RX value of ifconfig output? > Why is it smart to save the count to /etc/init.d/networking before > resetting? Can you give an example? '/etc/init.d/networking restart' does something like this: 'ifdown -a; ifup -a' executing this resets the TX/RX values you could edit 'networking' to do something like 'ifconfig >$mylogdir/network-state-before-reset_`date +%F`;ifdown -a;ifup -a' in order to prevent losing information greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnu-chess
> Where can I find a gnu-chess package for Debian please? apt-get install gnuchess when looking for something that trivial, try apt-cache search greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange problem w/Ripping CDs
> The problem with that is that this is a CD-RW drive. I believe that to > burn cd's the scsi emulation is required. Anyhow, that's all I've used > when burning. cdda2wav does do just what you described. Someone must > have an inkling as to the source of this problem. I just got cdparanoia working today by chmodding a+r /dev/sg0 you will need the "scsi generic support" kernel option to be enabled, or modprobe sg greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Loading modules at startup, particullarly NVdrivers
> This is elementary I sure but I have never gotten it right. > > My modules never loaded at startup. I tried putting a script in rc2.d > with /sbin/depmod but this has no effect - i.e. lsmod shows nothing. > > Recently I installed a Geforce4 MX440 board. With help from the list I > got the proper tar files from Nvidia and, if I go to /lib/.../video and > run insmod ./NVdriver and then xdm everything works perfectly. On > bootup, however, the driver module is not installed and xdm fails. > > I would appreciate a little coaching to straighten this out. > try adding a line containing just "NVdriver" to /etc/modules (as root) # echo NVdriver >> /etc/modules if you compile your nvidia drivers The Debian Way (using make-kpkg), a file /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel- is created containing the following two lines: alias /dev/nvidia* NVdriver alias char-major-195 NVdriver this also works (after running update-modules) greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How stable is SiD ?
Johan Kullstam verraste ons met de boodschap: > Perhaps his video card isn't supported with the woody shipped xfree86? > That's why I went straight for sid last August. (ATI Radeon 8500 > needs 4.2.1.) At work I just got some crap corporate box with i845g > graphics. I need xfree86 4.3. Please advise. if you're feeling lucky, you can fetch xfree86 4.3 from the experimental repository. just add the following to your sources.list: deb http://[your.debian.mirror]/debian ../project/experimental main and "apt-get install -t experimental xserver-xfree86 xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-drm-src" for dri-support, you may want to compile the modules in xlibmesa-drm-src with make-kpkg (from kernel-package) and modprobe the right one good luck, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: M$ licenses Unix
> I'm sorry, I understand someone that might need the help of debian-user > but not want to deal with the bulk of the email, but I just don't see it > as that much trouble to subscribe, post the question and then > unsubscribe. well, I do. among many others, I read the list as a newsgroup. having to subscribe to be able to post would be a great nuisance and would discourage people (including me) from contributing. -- Joris http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian - Blackdown Java 1.4.1/gcc3.2 debs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: M$ licenses Unix
>> > I'm sorry, I understand someone that might need the help of debian-user >> > but not want to deal with the bulk of the email, but I just don't see it >> > as that much trouble to subscribe, post the question and then >> > unsubscribe. >> >> well, I do. among many others, I read the list as a newsgroup. having to >> subscribe to be able to post would be a great nuisance and would >> discourage people (including me) from contributing. > > Oh, so where do postings to the newsgroup go? they appear on the newsgroup, but don't get posted through to the list. we don't want to risk a loop in such a high-traffic list >> http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian - Blackdown Java 1.4.1/gcc3.2 debs > > BTW -- I installed the Blackdown debs and I still don't have > application/x-java-vm handler. Did I miss a step (or something > otherwise obvious)? note that the package on this site are compiled with gcc3.2, in order to be compatible with mozilla from unstable. for testing and stable, you can and should use an official blackdown mirror (see http://blackdown.org/ ) if you are running unstable, galeon and mozilla should work out-of-the-box greetz, -- Joris http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian - Blackdown Java 1.4.1/gcc3.2 debs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: M$ licenses Unix
>> > I'm sorry, I understand someone that might need the help of debian-user >> > but not want to deal with the bulk of the email, but I just don't see it >> > as that much trouble to subscribe, post the question and then >> > unsubscribe. >> >> well, I do. among many others, I read the list as a newsgroup. having to >> subscribe to be able to post would be a great nuisance and would >> discourage people (including me) from contributing. > > Oh, so where do postings to the newsgroup go? they appear on the newsgroup, but don't get posted through to the list. we don't want to risk a loop in such a high-traffic list >> http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian - Blackdown Java 1.4.1/gcc3.2 debs > > BTW -- I installed the Blackdown debs and I still don't have > application/x-java-vm handler. Did I miss a step (or something > otherwise obvious)? note that the package on this site are compiled with gcc3.2, in order to be compatible with mozilla from unstable. for testing and stable, you can and should use an official blackdown mirror (see http://blackdown.org/ ) if you are running unstable, galeon and mozilla should work out-of-the-box greetz, -- Joris http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian - Blackdown Java 1.4.1/gcc3.2 debs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: M$ licenses Unix
>> >> http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian - Blackdown Java 1.4.1/gcc3.2 debs >> > >> > BTW -- I installed the Blackdown debs and I still don't have >> > application/x-java-vm handler. Did I miss a step (or something >> > otherwise obvious)? >> >> note that the package on this site are compiled with gcc3.2, in order to >> be compatible with mozilla from unstable. for testing and stable, you can >> and should use an official blackdown mirror (see http://blackdown.org/ ) >> >> if you are running unstable, galeon and mozilla should work out-of-the-box > > I'm running testing/unstable with gcc 3.2.3 and mozilla 1.3.1. > about:plugins shows a lot of application/x-java-* entries, but no > application/x-java-vm. strange, I've never seen this behaviour. have you tried the original .bin from blackdown? the package contains exactly the same files, so I don't think the debs are the problem. maybe the problem is caused by an older installation of java? maybe a user setting? do all the accounts on your system have the same problem? good luck, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing xserver
>> Once you get done with that, try using the utility called >> 'dexconf'. In my brief experience with it, what it does is use the >> vesa driver and somehow manages to get a basic X display up (no >> acceleration and that stuff). Then you can try experimenting and >> making new configurations with either "dpkg-reconfigure >> xserver-xfree86" or "xf86config" or "xf86cfg". > > Thanks, I'll do that after I uninstalled the x server I've got, > removed XF86Config and installed the proper x server. if you want to try autodetection, install discover, mdetect and read-edid and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 after that. the result is usually close to your perfect XF86Config-4 greetz, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing xserver
> Joris, > > Thanks for the lead. It's always nice to have some hardware > detection. Does it build a database so that when new hardware is > installed, it opens a dialog for you to configure it during the boot > process? I don't think so, I've never used it myself. As a student, I rarely buy new hardware ;-) [1] deb http://developer.linuxtag.net/knoppix ./ > The discover is a frontend for hardware detection tools, and you > mentioned one for the mouse (mdetect) and one for the monitor > (read-edid). Are there backends for other kinds of hardware, such as > scsi or a NIC? you could try knopper's packages[1], but naturally they're all very much geared towards the knoppix boot process > Discover can be set up to make the boot process aware of hardware and > ensure the necessary modules are loaded. Is this meant as a backup in > case module.conf fails to do its job? dunno, I always compile everything the machine can use in the kernel. besides, I trust the modutils package more than discover :-) > Discover has a friend, which is "discover-data." That seems to be a > database for common hardware, again to ensure drivers are properly > loaded. Do you feel it is really necessary or useful? not really. I rather recognise my hardware by looking at it :-) greetz, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel compile trouble after upgrade
> Yep, if u want to resolv this problem, link gcc against gcc-3.2 instead > of gcc-3.3. shouldn't there be a 'Debian way' of doing this? if the old gcc-packages were still on the server (or if you don't apt-get clean so often :-)), one could do $ sudo apt-get install gcc=3.2 $ echo gcc hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections but in my case, I had to change the symlink manually because the 'gcc' package has only one installation candidate (3.3) or am I overlooking something? -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel compile trouble after upgrade
> I haven't needed to try this yet, but I suspect you could insert a line > "CC=gcc-3.2" in /etc/kernel-pkg.conf to compile your kernels with gcc-3.2 > even if your system's default compiler were gcc-3.3. seems like a good idea, I'll try it the next time I recompile a kernel > I don't see why you would need to hold gcc3.2; does it get overwritten by > gcc-3.3? I have gcc-2.95, gcc-3.0, and gcc-3.2 on my system and they don't > step on each other. you're right, but that was not the problem. I thought it might be a good idea to be able to choose where /usr/bin/gcc links to, without having to manually 'ln -sf'. it may not be a good idea after all, I don't know -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling kernel and nvidia drivers in 1 go
Benedict Verheyen verraste ons met de boodschap: > previously when i made my own kernel, i first made the kernel, then > followed the instructions in the nvidia package docs to make the modules > and related debs. Is it possible to do this in 1 go? I mean compiling > the kernel and the nvidia drivers at the same time? (you may want to wrap your lines at 72 characters) I compile my kernels like this: $ cd /usr/src $ rm -rf modules $ tar xzf nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz (unpack other kernel modules here) clean: $ rm -rf kernel-source-2.4.20 $ tar xjf kernel-source-2.4.20.tar.bz2 $ ln -sf kernel-source-2.4.20 linux $ cd linux $ cp /boot/config-2.4.20 .config or:$ cd linux $ fakeroot make-kpkg clean $ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision bene.0.7 --config xconfig kernel_image modules_image (use --append-to-version to make another flavour, that can coexist with your current kernel-image-2.4.20) (I also use --added-patches for a custom 1400x1050 progress patch) $ cd .. $ sudo dpkg -i *bene.0.7*deb greetz, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla 1.3 and Java
>> I have installed the unstable version of mozilla (vers. 1.3) and j2sdk 1.4 >> from blackdown, I think that the links are right: > > Did you specifically get the version of the j2sdk that was compiled with > gcc 3.2? I don't believe that the debs available of it are compiled > with gcc 3.2 (they have not been updated in some time), in which case you'll > likely need to just download the tarball and install it manually into > /usr/local/java or some such location. > > ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin > or > ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2sdk-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin with the source package of the blackdown java 1.4beta debs, I've built debs[1] with contents of the above bins. after fixing a lot of small bugs (many thanks to Andrew Lau), the packages are sort of final. I hope they will become obsolete in the near future though, as the mpkg-j2sdk[2] package makes its way into unstable. To me that seems to be a cleaner solution, as no obscure third-party apt repositories (like mine) are needed. greetz, -- Joris [1] http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian/ [2] http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ude2/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Patching a kernel.
Marino Fernandez verraste ons met de boodschap: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# bzip2 -dc xfs-2.4.20-all-i38620030114.bz2 | patch -p1 you might want to run 'patch' in the kernel source directory: cd /usr/src ln -sf kernel-source-2.4.20 linux cd linux bzip2 -dc ../xfs-2.4.20-all-i38620030114.bz2 |patch -p1 btw, it's considered a bad habit to play around as root (reminds me of a qoute by Vineet Kumar :-)). after a 'adduser src', you can do all compiling stuff as a regular user. only the 'dpkg -i' part needs root, you can compile kernels as yourself using 'fakeroot make-kpkg [...]'. -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TwinView and workspaces
>>Also, I'd love to have a way to have a regular text console on one >>screen with X on another, but I don't really know if that's possible nor >>where I would possibly begin to look for info. Any info is greatly >>appreciated. > > Well, what happens if you use only one screen for X11? Is the other > still usable? It won't. I work with two screens, but without xinerama. I told the gnome session manager to fire up a second icewm on the secondary screen, and a few apps like gaim, xmms and multi-gnome-terminal. You could emulate a regular text-console by not starting a window manager on the second screen, and only running an xterm there (you'll have to experiment with the --geometry option to maximise it) greetz and a happy 2003, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: copy many files filtering extensions
> I have to periodically copy a lot of files filtering them by their > extensions (something like cp * but *.bak). How can I do that (as I can > read from cp' man or info page this is not possible)? you could try rsync, it has an --exclude= option apt-get install rsync man rsync greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gaim problems
> Is anyone else using Woody's version of Gaim for Yahoo instant > messaging? It worked fine here until about a week ago when I could no > longer connect to Yahoo. The only error message shown is "Unable to > read". ? yahoo changed it's protocol recently. the issue is fixed in gaim v0.59.8, but at this time that version hasn't made it into unstable yet I hope it does quickly, otherwise you could try building a package of your own (downing the source from http://gaim.sf.net/ and running debian/rules) greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GNOME2 config
> I've been running woody up on laptop for a while now > and have been regularly running apt-get > update/upgrade. After updating last night I decided to > have a go at installing GNOME2 and Mozilla 1.2.1 from > their respective sites on people.debian.org. It all > looked to running nicely, I rebooted after installing > everything and was impressed with what I'd got. But, > when I turned the machine on today I can't move any of > the windows around, they just sit one atop the other - > I have to close one window to see the one beneath and > I can't type into the address bar anything like the > search boxes on web pages - access through an M$ box > continues to allow me full access to the outside > world! I ran update-alternatives --config > x-windows-manager to try to switch from sawfish as I > have at present to metacity (I only seem to be able to > do this as root...). On rebooting the system sawfish > is still running... solutions to these simple little > problems would be most helpful. Thanks in advance! try 'Actions' -> 'Run Program...' -> "killall sawfish && metacity" then log out, saving your session greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian-user@lists.debian.org
> I'd like to have both mice working with gpm and X. My gpm and X > relevant sections follow and ideas on tweaking these to make this work > would be appreciated. > > Using a laptop (Gateway9550) with its builtin mouse, and a USB mouse > (logitech optical cordless) > > The following gives me the builtin but not the USB in console but both > working mice in X > The following gives me both mice in console but I lose one ( jerky > unpredictable behavior) in X this second setup is good to start from, as it already works in console imho, the way you want to use gpmdata is wrong. it is one fifo, and you repeat two different signals through it. my guess would be to repeat both mice through gpmdata, but in the same protocol. X won't even notice the actions come from two different mice, so you'll only need one "inputdevice" section. you might try a config like this: /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t autops2 -Rps2 -M -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2 -Rps2 Section "InputDevice" Identifier "GPM Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/gpmdata" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "GPM Mouse" EndSection just guessing, but you might give it a try good luck, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't find /usr/src/linux/..
> I'm probebly stupid but on my debian 3.0 system there is no > /usr/src/linux > > Is there a package I should install for compiling your own kernel, i suggest 'the debian way' (tm) (as root) # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18 kernel-package fakeroot (now login as normal user, after adding him to group 'src' by doing something like `adduser hjan src`) $ cd /usr/src $ tar -xvjf kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 $ ln -s kernel-source-2.4.18 linux $ cd linux $ make xconfig $ fakeroot (time) make-kpkg --revision=hendrikjan.0.1 kernel_image $ make-kpkg clean now installing your new kernel (as root, of course) is as easy as # dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.18_hendrikjan.0.1_i386.deb s/2.4.18/2.4.19/ if you want good luck! Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with python in Debian/unstable
J.S.Sahambi verraste ons met de boodschap: > I upgraded my sytesm (Debian/unstable) with dselect and i got the > following output. Is this some problem with distribution and how do I > remove it. > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python_2.3.2-6_all.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/python2.3/python-policy.html', > which is also in package python2.3 a simple (but risky) way to deal with such circular dependencies is: # dpkg -r --force-depends python2.3 # apt-get install python python2.3 good luck, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Logging from Linksys BEFSX41 Router to Debian Server
BruceG verraste ons met de boodschap: >I am using a Linksys BEFSX41 router, and want to start logging inbound > and outbound access. I can set which IP address I want it to log to, and > wanted to know how to set things up on a Debian server to accept logging > from other devices. > >I am running Debian Testing and will be on 2.4.23 AS SOON as it is > available as a package. In the mean time, I need to be able to log all > traffic going in and out of my router - and would prefer to log it to the > Debian PC. syslogd should be started with the "-r" option (for remote). you can do that by editing /etc/init.d/sysklogd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ head -n 14 /etc/init.d/sysklogd | tail -n 4 # Options for start/restart the daemons # For remote UDP logging use SYSLOGD="-r" # SYSLOGD="-r" greetz, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reorganizing disks
Hi Sven, Allmost right, you can us dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/sda but add the right partition number to it. so it would become dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/sda1. But I don't know if the kernel will like it to be moved around from ide to scsi. It should be compiled to work before moving it. Besides you'll have to change all your configuration to run from /hda/sda1. Especially the /etc/lilo.conf will have to be changed and rerun from the scsi disk. also the /etc/fstab will have to be editted to get your swap to work. And check the rest of /etc/* for more configuration files that have to be changed. - Original Message - From: "Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian Users" Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 12:54 AM Subject: reorganizing disks Hello Debians I want to move a whole debian install from one disk onto another. The second (new disk) is larger than the one debian is on right now: Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 131 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1 8001 83 Linux /dev/sda2 2 7 48195 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 8 131996030 83 Linux Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 51 sectors, 1010 cylinders Units = cylinders of 816 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 148 19558+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb249 192 58752 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb3 193 1010333744 83 Linux The SCSI disk is where I want to "move" debian. Is it correct that I can do that simply with the following: # dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/sda My questions are as follows: Is that really all and is it possible? Will I then be able to create more partitions on the new disk for the space that is left? How much adjusting will need to be done for the "new" debian to boot up fine? (/etc/fstab and/or what?)
Re: Slightly failed Hard-Disk-Upgrade
Monique Y. Herman verraste ons met de boodschap: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 12:48 GMT, Kevin Mark penned: >> Personally I use DD to copy but I know others like cp -a ;-) > > I tried to use dd to copy a 2GB hard drive onto a 20GB drive, and the > system saw the end result as a 2GB, presumably due to filesystem > metadata. This was ext2. Has this not been a problem for you? 'e2fsck -f /dev/ && resize2fs -f /dev/' should do the trick greetings, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing the name of my computer
Pigeon verraste ons met de boodschap: > I don't know if there > exists a list somewhere of all the config files that your machine name might > find its way into. It might be useful to do something like: > > for x in `find /etc -name '*'`; do grep achilles $x > /dev/null 2>&1 && ech= > o $x; done > > just to make sure you've caught everything. just for the record, the command $ grep -rsl achilles /etc will do the same, but a huge lot more efficient (being just 1 process instead of 1 for every file in /etc) -r is of course recursive -s surpresses error messages (lilo.conf for example is not be readable by normal users) -l outputs the filename instead of the matched lines man grep for more neat stuff ;-) greetz, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get install aspell fails?
Michael B Allen verraste ons met de boodschap: >> With Debian you have choice. If you wish a cutting edge system use Unstable >> (Sarge), >> or one less cutting edge use Testing (Sid). If you insist on wanting >> a new version of Aspell that's not in Stable > > THERE IS NO ASPELL *AT ALL* IN STABLE. > > Let me rephrase that: > > IN STABLE, THERE IS NO ASPELL *AT ALL*. > > Are you "getting it" yet? Come on children, no need to fight over this ;-) http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/ChangeLog tells us aspell .33.7 was not 'free' enough for debian. too bad, we'll have to settle with a non-official source, like the ones on http://www.apt-get.org/search.php?query=aspell peace, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tunneling application X app over ssh from client to server
Micha Feigin verraste ons met de boodschap: > A simple diagram to try and clear things > > shh --> sshd > app --> display > [ remote box][ local box ] I found this problem rather interesting :-), and just ran some tests. It's perfectly possible, connecting like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -R :localhost:22 home.ip (leave this connection open) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -X -p localhost Last login: from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xapp & and there it is :-) enjoy! -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Log a user out
Andrew Schulman verraste ons met de boodschap: >> As for killing someone, the way i usualy go about it is to run `id >> ` and find out the users UID then simply `pkill -U `. Im >> sure somebody will reply with a more standard way to do this but if >> they dont then atleast you got this :). > > I don't know if there's a more standard way. Killing their login shell > is the way I've always done it. if you like automatisation (don't we all?) $ apt-cache show slay ... Description: Kills all of the user's processes Slay provides you with a way to quickly get rid of all processes a particular user owns. Very useful if you want to harm somebody. -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla 1.3.1 java plugin
talliso verraste ons met de boodschap: > >> Get the version of the Java plugin from Blackdown that's compiled with >> gcc 3.2. >> > > Where? > > I couldn't find it. http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html in the ftp archive near you, it's JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/*-gcc3.2.bin I've got unofficial debian packages for it at http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian/ though that location may change in the near future. The packages contain exactly the same binaries as the blackdown .bin's, but mozilla plug-in, alternatives and so forth should work out of the box. greetings, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Acrobat Reader
Pedro M. (Morphix User) verraste ons met de boodschap: > I send an interesting link to install Adobe Acrobat in Debian ( with the > adventage of copy the text of the pdf files to ehte clipboard, something > that one cannot do with xpdf and derivatives). > > http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?Acrobat I assume it works nicely, but it's definitely not the Debian Way(TM) of installing stuff. besides, xpdf copies selected text to the clipboard perfectly - only the way of selecting seems a little odd at first (though it's a huge timesaver for copying text from a columned article) and, if you like the way acroread plugs into mozilla, installing mozplugger does the same thing for xpdf... greetz, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Window Manager for the Job
James W. Thompson, II verraste ons met de boodschap: > I am working on building a web browsing kiosk, no other functionality > with Debian. I am planning to use FireFox and was wondering about the > best Window Manager for the job. Here is the biggest catch, the system > is old. I've built a kiosk with comparable hardware, with only this installed: - X, the very basics + fonts - icewm for a window manager (extremely configurable and fast) - gdm for the autologin feature - galeon for browsing (ok, a very large set of dependencies, but I like its tab behaviour and the mouse gestures) - xpdf (you could also install gv, java, flashplugin, mozplugger, mplayer, mplayerplugin, ... for other browsing enhancements) - _no_ xterm or equivalent if you don't want guests to explore the filesystem additional feature: /var and /home moved to /var.template and /home.template, mounting /var, /tmp and /home as tmpfs and copying over the contents directly after mounting. add a read-only root partition and shutting down is as easy as turning the power off :-) > Debian installed with no problems as a minimal install but I want to > have some kind of idea of where I am going. To be honest, I have never > configured a system for quite this purpose. I have two accounts on the > machine: root and user. I am wanting to use a graphical login and would > like for FireFox to launch automatically on loading into X. Do I even > need a Window Manager really since I just want FireFox to load and run > and nothing else will need to be there. I've tried the 'no window manager' approach... it sucks ;-). dialog boxes don't get keyboard focus, among other inconveniences > Any ideas? I searched the archives and didn't find anything real useful. indeed, given that the kiosk-howto is almost 5 years old hope this helps, I wish you the best of luck, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How does one get ssh to not wait?
Dan Jacobson verraste ons met de boodschap: > How does one get ssh to not wait? > > ssh somewhere < touch file > sleep 333 && rm file& > ! > echo I want control to arrive at this line without waiting 333! > > I tried (...)&, disown, etc. > Must I resort to batch(1)? at(1) would do the job - hey, that's the same as batch - but I'd use screen(1), with the '-d -m' option combo greetz, -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resolv.conf changing over time
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 20:08 -0400, T wrote:
> The problem is it won't be long before my etc/resolv.conf, which points to
> my own DNS cache server, get changed. How can I solve that? Is there any
> hooks like ipup(?) for dial up?
if you use pump for a dhcp client, there are a couple of ways to tell it
not to update the DNS resolver configuration (add '-d' in the init
script, or even better put 'device eth0 { nodns }' in pump.conf)
if you don't use pump, you can either look for a similar feature in your
dhcp client or simply 'apt-get install pump' (it will replace your
current client)
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Re: Where does Debian store packages on my local disk drive...
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 05:18 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
>> I've got another Debian box at home that isn't wired to the net yet.
> run this script on the debian system that you want to update:
> apt-get -y --print-uris upgrade|awk '{print $1}'|grep deb|cut -d\' -f2
> it will output a list of URLs that can be used in any browser to downloaded
> the
> deb files from any computer and then can be burned to CD. (change 'upgrade'
> to
> 'dist-upgrade' if you wish to dist-upgrade.)
> Then run:
> apt-get upgrade
> once the files are transfered to the /var/cache/apt/archive directory.
there is only one flaw in your solution: if his home system isn't
connected to the net, it doesn't know about any available updates.
a possible solution would be to run 'apt-get update' on a (net-wired)
system with exactly the same sources.list, burn /var/lib/apt/lists on a
CD and copy those files to the offline system. only after that will
Kevins solution work.
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Re: How to share the apt cache
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 10:02 -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Hi. We use Debian on a number of machines, and, to avoid downloading > the same packages multiple times, we download debian cd images (which > are kept updated with jigdo) to a server and set sources.list to point > (only) to this images. > > But this has obvious problems. > What is the "correct" way to share the apt cache? I think we should > keep /var/cache/apt/archives in the server and mount it with nfs in > the other computers. But I'm not shure this is the "correct" way; I > don't know enough about the behaviour of apt to be sure that this > won't bring an obscure problem. What should I do? I do exactly that to keep my 2 Debian systems up to date. this approach is not the only one, there are a few proxy servers dedicated to apt repositories: apt-cacher/apt-proxy/approx. a brief comparison: nfs shared: + much more economic on diskspace usage + simple to set up, no need to change sources.list - small security issue: all clients with unique packages need r/w access to the master apt cache, with root access (no_root_squash). secure apt may be enough to render a security breach useless though - for 'apt-get autoclean' to work the way you'd want it to, the machine on wich it is issued must have a complete sources.list, covering all repositories used anywhere on the network. don't forget to 'apt-get update' right before that either... (this problem gets worse when your network uses more than 1 architecture!) apt proxies: + proven setup, no known security issues + no extra hassle for networks containing multiple architectures + no 'apt-get clean' oops-moments - huge combined diskspace usage: every package appears once in the cache plus once on every machine (though mounting /var/cache/apt/archives in tmpfs and regularly 'apt-get clean'ing may help) - all sources.list must be adapted, unless your network router can redirect http traffic to a transparent proxy good luck! -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:19 -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > sudo sh -c "readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum > /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum" (totally off topic, but a thought maybe worth sharing:) I used to pull similar tricks to redirect output to a file writable only by root. it can be done without spawning a root shell, though: readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum | sudo tee /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum it has the added bonus of showing what you've just written to the file (unless you tack '>/dev/null' to the end of the line, of course). see tee(1) for more info (the append option is handy for replacing '>>') enjoy! -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Turning off the %^&* scroll wheel
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 12:12 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > Mr. Kaye, many thanks. Unfortunately, there is no such option in the > two "mouse" related sections: > > == > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Device""/dev/input/mice" > Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" > Driver "synaptics" > Option "SendCoreEvents""true" > Option "Device""/dev/psaux" > Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" > Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" > EndSection > = > > I tried reconfiguring and changing to imps rather than explorerps2, no > change. > Is there another possibility? Surprisingly, your touchpad is probably not the "Configured Mouse" input device, but rather the "Synaptics Touchpad". The command "man synaptics" (you can always find the exact name of the manpage by typing "apropos synaptics" or "apropos touchpad") reveals a whole lot of options to alter the behaviour of your touchpad. I believe you're looking for the one called "VertEdgeScroll". So, in the touchpad section, add: Option "VertEdgeScroll""false" Enjoy! -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: / full?
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:16 -0400, Chris Parker wrote:
> I have filled up the / partition. a copy of fstab is below:
>
> $/ df -h
> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 250M 249M 0 100% /
as some others pointed out, it's rather strange to fill that amount of
space on /, if you have {home,usr,var,tmp} mounted from other
partitions. if you can't find the culprit files in /opt or /root, they
may exist in /var or /tmp *on your root partition*. to check this:
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/root
$ mount --bind / /mnt/root
$ ls -la /mnt/root/{home,usr,var,tmp}
if there is anything in there, you should probably (re)move it
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Re: Evolution icons?
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 08:22 -0700, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > I run Debian/etch with a KDE desktop. Last week I performed an 'apt-get > upgrade' and almost all of my button icons for Evolution disappeared. > > Any ideas? I've seen the same problem some weeks ago on sid. It's easily solved by reapplying your gnome theme: * run gnome-theme-manager * either click Theme Details, then on the Icons tab, then choose GNOME, or just choose another theme altogether good luck! -- Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP4 setup problems
> It means that the kernel didn't know how to execute that file. Perhaps > you need '#! /usr/bin/php4' as the first line of the PHP script? Or add the following lines to /etc/apache/httpd.conf, preferably between and its ending tag AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody config file
>> If I want to compile a kernel but want to us my current configuration >> as a guide is that possible? > Copy an existing config into $(source-tree)/.config, where > $(source-tree) is the top-level directory of the unpacked kernel source, > and 'make menuconfig' or whatever you normally do. Colin gave the right answer to your question, but IMHO it's not the best way to compile your own kernel. First of all, woody ships with a 2.2.xx kernel. Perfect for installation and recovery, but if you're going to build a custom kernel you'll want to fine-tune things. In that case I would recommend you to go for the latest debianized kernel-source (2.4.18 in testing). There is another reason not to start from the configuration of the installation kernels. Those kernels were intended to run on as many pieces of hardware as possible, and I presume you want to bake one especially for your machine. It may be better not to base a kernel built for efficiency on one built for compatibility. If you go for a 2.4.xx kernel, beware of this common mistake: if you don't have multiple processors, be sure to turn off the support for it (CONFIG_SMP, "Processor type and features" -> "Symmetric multi-processing support") as it will prevent apm from working. I wonder why it is enabled by default. The documentation for this option says clearly: * 'If you have a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N' * 'If you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel will run faster if you say N here.' * 'The "Advanced Power Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here.' * 'If you don't know what to do here, say N.' Could I file this as a bug report? Or is there a good reason for this choice? IMHO, changing it would prevent many complaints about apm-not- working-anymore-after-baking-custom-kernel. Or is is too small a detail to disturb the maintainer with? (sorry for the large post) Just my 2 cents, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simple traffic monitor/firewalls
>> Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my >> system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2 >> computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my pc > the >> small monitor screen icons would turn blue, indicating activity. Now I >> have no firewall under linux I would like to have some way of at > least >> monitoring traffic throughput as I surf the net. Does anyone know if >> there is any small utility that can do this under woody. > Use ntop - it's similar to top program, but instead of running processes > it shows network interfaces' utilization. in gnome, there is an applet called 'NetLoad' that shows network activity in a small bypassing graph. it is in the package 'gnome-applets' greetz, Joris, who is proud of having deleted his windoze-partition yesterday :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
resizing root partition
Some time ago, back when I was making my first steps into linux, I installed Debian on an old 486. After some experimenting, apt-getting and kernel compiling my root partition ran out of space. Using either TomsRtBt or the Debian rescue/root disk set, I found it rather simple to move/copy partitions (including /), but now there was't enough room to just copy / to a larger empty partition. So I cleared up some space behind / and enlarged the partition using cfdisk. But here comes the catch. None of the root environments I found on floppy had resize2fs on them. This made it a little tricky to actually resize the root filesystem. I ended up doing it this way: boot debian rescue disk LILO# floppy0 swap for root disk when asked configure keyboard, then "execute a shell" (bottom of the menu) # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt # cp /mnt/sbin/resize2fs /sbin # umount /mnt # e2fsck -f /dev/hda1 # resize2fs /dev/hda1 Resize2fs takes 20kb, or 10kb when gzipped. Are the root disks that 'full' it wouldn't fit anymore? Or is there another reason why it is left out? Or is there an easier way to resize a root filesystem? Thanks ahead, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP4 setup problems [SOLVED - kinda]
>> Or add the following lines to /etc/apache/httpd.conf, preferably >> between and its ending tag >> >> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php >> AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps > I noticed in the error log file that it was having a problem loading the > magic file. The http.conf file was pointing to share/magic, which apache > resolves to mean /etc/apache/share/magic. Thanks for pointing it out, I get that error too, but hadn't noticed However, php works like a charm here, just by adding the 2 lines above and uncommenting the LoadModule line for php (of course ;-)) > So I've pointed apache to /usr/share/misc/magic. PHP now works, but on > restarting apache I get a long list of invalid entries from the magic > file (examples): > So I guess my question now is: > > Am I using the right magic file? > And if not, which magic file should I be using? /etc/magic is empty - > should I be using that one? I guess neither. Those magic files were made for file(1), as it says in the comments. You can download the apache flavoured one at http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/apache-1.3/conf/magic (then 'download') I just tried it, and restarted apache. There are no errors anymore. I think it is a flaw in the debian package. Can anyone help me with filing a bugreport? I think 2 things should be changed: 1. include apache-1.3/conf/magic -> /etc/apache/magic 2. change line "MIMEMagicFile share/magic" to "MIMEMagicFile magic" Is this any good? Is there a reason not to do this? Just my 2 cents, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APM
> I have just recompiled a new kernel, version 2.5.18; I use the same > settings for APM, as it were. Problem is, now my ATX motherboard > wouldn't completely shutdown after the shutdown command being issued. I > hear the same clicking of the power relay during the poweroff, but the > power light (LED) would remain on; after that, the reset button would > start the computer when pressed. It seems that the machine is going > sleeping after the shutdown command. Has any of you encounterd something > like this? I had the same problem with a self-compiled 2.4.18, and it took me a while to find out that support for multiple processors was enabled. The option is named CONFIG_SMP, in menu-driven config you can find it as "Processor type and features"->"Symmetric multi-processing support". I don't know for 2.5.xx kernels, but in the debianized 2.4.xx-kernel-source series, it is enabled by default. I wonder why. The documentation for this option clearly states: * 'If you have a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N' * 'If you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel will run faster if you say N here.' * 'The "Advanced Power Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here.' * 'If you don't know what to do here, say N.' Could I file this as a bug report? Or is there a good reason for this choice? IMHO, changing it would prevent many complaints about apm-not- working-anymore-after-baking-custom-kernel. Or is is too small a detail to disturb the maintainer with? (sorry for repeating myself, I already posted this statement) Just my 2 cents, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody is killing me
>> Many of the mirrors I was using were stagnant. Mostly universities in >> the USA. I redefined everything back to tier one and got most of it >> working again. ucspi & qmail are majorly hosed, but I think everything >> else is OK. > > I've often found with mirrors that some are not updated properly. Is > there a list of mirrors known to be reliable? I don't know of a list, but never had problems with http.de.debian.org, which is not that far from where you are living, I presume :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Clear HDD of old OS, etc?
>> I am looking for a quick way to clear an HDD of old data, partitions, >> etc. >> > I don't see any mention of removing data for strong security concerns, > so I will assume that you just want to recycle the drive for another > purpose. I would recommend running fdisk, removing the partitions and > simply use the drive in your new application. By the way, if you want to wipe the drive completely, ie for security reasons, just cfdisk, delete all partitions, create one big linux partition, and run 'mke2fs -c -c /dev/hdX'. It will write (and read) four patterns (0xaa, 0x55, 0x00 and 0xff, iirc) to the whole disk, to check for bad blocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: home network with mac
> /etc/network/interfaces file. It reads: >iface lo inet loopback >iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.1.50 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 192.168.1.0 > broadcast 192.168.1.255 > Does this look correct? I'm not sure if I need to do anything to have > my machine use the ethernet card (connected to the switch and mac) for > ftp when I haven't used the modem to dialup the internet. I realize I'm > not being very clear here, but any help (and all the advice so far > given) is greatly appreciated. Thanks, you may want to put the line auto lo eth0 at the beginning of your interfaces file. also, if support for your network card is not baked in the kernel, you should load the module for it at startup. put a line alias eth0 in /etc/modutils/network or something (name does't matter) and run $ update-modules this will get your networking up at boottime. greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mplayer
>I do not have nothing in LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. The MPlayer is >very, very good! The only video program, that is free, > and i can see my videos (.mpg, .asf, .avi)... just fine! I want just a > nice gui... if you know about another one Thanks! I am very happy with the unofficial mplayer debs from marillat. just add the following lines to your sources.list deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main deb http://mplayer.nmeos.net/ testing/ and apt-get install mplayer-686 (for pentium 2 or higher) he also has debs for flash-plugin (apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla) just my 2 cents, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mplayer
>> deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main >> deb http://mplayer.nmeos.net/ testing/ > i added those to my sources.list file and updated everythign went fine > when i try and install it i get broken dependencies error it says > package libdirectfb8 is not installible. Any ideas? it is in woody, http://packages.debian.org/testing/libs/libdirectfb8.html maybe you use potato or sid? just change testing to stable/unstable then # for potato deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main deb http://mplayer.nmeos.net/ stable/ # for sid deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main deb http://mplayer.nmeos.net/ unstable/ if you are running woody, maybe it's time to do a $ apt-get dist-upgrade greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Documentacion
> Hola, estoy interezado en obtener un manual de instalacion de Debian en > espanol. Si alguien me pudiera brindar informacion de donde pueda > descargar u obtener algo que me sirva para poder instalara debian 2.2r5 > le agradecere aternamente esta colaboracion. Saludos desde Cuba, > David quizas te sirve http://www.esdebian.org/ te recomendo instalar woody (debian 3.0), ya tendrá el estatus estable http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/releases/20020416/ buena suerte! Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: in case you missed this from ponik
> On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:37 pm, David Wright wrote: >> 1) Create an account and subscribe it to debian-user. 2) Set it to >> forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3) Leave >> >> No list managemenent system can protect against this. > > I don't know what the state of the art of list management software is, > but it must be possible to > > a) limit the number of messages from any user to say 50 a day; > > b) disallow posting from unconfirmed addresses; if [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wasn't subscribed, how could he post? this would prevent many people who read this list as a newsgroup to contribute > c) detect "lameness" like Slashcode sites, and Google Groups (identical > repeated messages, malformatted messages, etc.) I agree with the rest of your arguments. By the way, are ponik's (and other spam) messages going to be removed from the archives? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing (kernel) modules
> I have Woody installed with the 2.2-20 kernel. I apt-get installed the > 2.4.18 kernel for both k7 and i686. Both installed ok, but both hung on > boot, stating that the root file system couldn't be mounted. this is because those kernel images use initial ramdisks (initrd) as root file system, to be able to loading modules (ie reiserfs, xfs) before mounting and chrooting to your actual /. This is the only way to boot from say reiserfs root partitions without having support baked in the kernel. > As an > experiment, I downloaded the latest stable kernel from kernel.org and > compiled it. It compiled and installed fine, and boots fine, except > that it's missing many of the modules I need, including all of the > network modules I need for my nics. I've gone completely through the > kernel configuration several times. They just aren't there. But > they're included in all the dpkgs I've installed. What am I missing? > Is there another source for modules other than the kernel tar ball? i would recommend using debianized sources and the kernel packager: # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18 kernel-package fakeroot (now login as normal user, after adding him to group 'src') # cd /usr/src (move kernel.org sources out of the way) # tar -xvjf kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 # ln -s kernel-source-2.4.18 linux # cd linux # make xconfig # fakeroot (time) make-kpkg --revision=glen.0.1 kernel_image now installing your new kernel (as root, of course) is as easy as # dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.18_glen.0.1_i386.deb Before, I always used 'make menuconfig' but I have noticed some options are only available in xconfig (ie activating lpp patch). It can help you too, because it doesn't actually hide the options that are not available. That way you can find out more easily which option to use to enable the nics (Network Device Support -> Ethernet (10/100 Mbit) -> manufacturer -> chipset) just my 2 eurocents, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade to Woody
> I'm currently using Debian's stable release but, due to some delays in > the versions of some libraries that won't let me compile some programs, > I would like to upgrade to Woody. My question is (of course): how!? Is > apt-get dist-upgrade safe enough? Someone told me about "aptitude", but > (again) I lack some libraries to compile a recent version of it. > > I would be very thankful for any opinions. If you want to compile things yourself, I'm afraid I can't help you, but if you just want the debian packages: # nano /etc/apt/sources.list (change stable to woody/testing) # apt-get update # apt-get install apt apt-utils dpkg debconf # apt-get -dy dist-upgrade (just download, doesn't require interference) # apt-get dist-upgrade this has always worked for me good luck, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing default PPP deb with custom deb?
> The deb package made from the patched source bears the same name and > version as the official package. I tried finding a way to change this, > but haven't found anything of help. I suspect either I'm not looking in > the right locations, or I'm not searching for the right items. Then > result of this is that apt wants to upgrade the installed version of PPP > any time I check for upgraded packages. Obviously, I don't want this to > happen. > > I've tried pinnning the PPP package, but my attempts have been > ineffectual. > > Would someone please point me to a reference on how to accomplish this? http://www.google.com/search?q=dpkg+%22put+package+on+hold%22 gives me: $ echo " hold" | dpkg --set-selections greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards
> Hmmm, could someone then point me to an URL where i could obtain a > 2.4-enabled-iso image ? If Debian doesn't do the trick i'm about to be > forced to move away from it. The question is then, what distro. Gentoo, > Suse, Redhat, Slackware ... I'll post back how this experience worked > out. you can find the iso image on http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/releases/20020416/ when you boot from this cd, you can choose from 4 images. Number 3 uses a 2.4 kernel (but you can read that is the RELEASE file) greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel compile in woody
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > are the steps to compile a new kernel in woody the same as in potato? I don't know about potato, but in woody, the easiest way is: (as root) # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18 kernel-package fakeroot (now login as normal user, after adding him to group 'src') # cd /usr/src (move old sources out of the way, and delete/rename 'linux' symlink) # tar -xvjf kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 # ln -s kernel-source-2.4.18 linux # cd linux # make xconfig # fakeroot (time) make-kpkg --revision=marcelo.0.1 kernel_image now installing your new kernel (as root, of course) is as easy as # dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.18_marcelo.0.1_i386.deb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mc-like X app (was: Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?)
> Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3 > > ya cant live without it :) I can't ;-) does anyone know an X alternative to it? imho, gmc is not worth being called the gnome mc, and xnc is't too user-friendly either. The ultimate graphical file manager for me would look like WinCommander (ghisler.com). Total mouseless control, and able to preview files (even images and movies, in combination with IrfanView) in one pane, while browsing in the other. works under wine, too (at least the registered version) Anybody know of such an X program? (if it is as good as WinCmd, I'd even pay for it - even if it releases under GPL, which is better of course) Thanks ahead, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk
> I want to sell an old machine that I don't use any more but there's > still sensitive stuff like personal emails, gpg keys, and passwords on > the hdd. What's the recommended way to securely 'shred' this data so > that it cannot be undeleted by the next owner? > > I assume I need to do something like overwriting the whole drive > serveral times with random data before finally erasing and reformating > the whole drive. Are there any apps out there that do this or do I have > to roll my own solution using something like "cat /dev/urandom | dd"? > Any suggestions? > > Any pointers and suggestions appreciated. # mke2fs -c -c /dev/hda1 will make any undeletion (not involving very expensive recovery hardware) impossible -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?
>> ps - I heard that APM is turned off in the presence of SMP, so that may >> have been the reason. > > I coulda sworn it could still kill power for it on SMP systems... /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation/Configuration.help, line 115: Symmetric Multi-Processing support CONFIG_SMP The "Advanced Power Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. and still SMP is enabled by default in kernel-source-2.4.18.deb (for which I have just filed a bug) greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running something on start up and shutdown
> What's the best way to run a script once on startup and again (well, a > related script) on shutdown? I want to run the scripts as a user rather > than root, which I believe is the standard init.d method. your script could read: #!/bin/sh # /etc/init.d/myscript # references /etc/init.d/mystartupscript #/etc/init.d/myhaltscript case "$1" in start|restart) su -c '/etc/init.d/mystartupscript' ;; stop) su -c '/etc/init.d/myhaltscript' ;; *) echo "Usage: myscript start|stop|restart" ;; esac # The End. just put it in init.d and use update-rc.d to make it run automatically greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla and galeon eat RAM
> got a little problem with mozilla 1.0.0 and galeon 1.2.5 - i think. > Things started going real slow today and i checked with top and gtop to > see whats going on there. > That shows for galeon and mozilla 5 running processes each eating up 18 > megs of RAM each. > Can that be ok? > I updated galeon today and must admit that i never looked at it before. galeon/mozilla (and lots of other apps) share one memory chunk among their instances and child processes. In reality, it uses only 18 meg ram in total, not per instance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smc 8216c nic (was: Re: Debian Network Howto)
> I have an smc 8216C card. On same system (dual boot), Windows98 finds > the card as strapped (io=0x300 irq=10). Redhat 6.0 found it with the > smc-ultra driver. > After the fact, I found that on smc cards, sometimes the ne or wd > drivers work. I'm unable to install any of them, ne, wd, or smc-ultra > (having installed the 8390 they depend upon). This is with either > modprobe, or direct insmod with options io=0x300 irq=10. I had the same problem, with exact the same card. It seems the smc-ultra driver doesn't detect it anymore since the 2.2.xx kernel series. The reason RedHat 6 found it is its old 2.0 kernel, but as I wanted Debian and a more recent kernel, I swapped all my smc8216's for any other nic with different people that use windows anyway... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntpdate troubles
>> Okay. It works okay at boot time? > No ! > It is why I debg it: I get exactly the samr message error in > `/var/log/syslog'. on my machine, I haven't got ntpdate to work out the hostnames of any ntp server. I just pinged them, copied the ip's and dpkg-reconfigure'd ntp to look for the ip's. It has worked ever since. Success, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
packages being kept back during upgrade
Hello everybody, I've upgraded my (stable) debian machine some days ago - and again to be sure - but it looks like some packages are allways 'kept back'. This is the exact output I just got: -- Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back gconf2 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libgail-common libgail17 libgconf2-4 libgnome2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common libgtkhtml2-0 libpanel-applet2-0 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libwnck4 openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en xlibmesa-dev yelp 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded. Need to get 643kB of archives. After unpacking 81.9kB will be used. -- What does it mean - and, should I do something to solve it ? Thanks for any input, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages being kept back during upgrade
--- James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 16:38:10 -0500 > Josh Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If so, it probably means that the packages that > were kept back conflict > > with some other package on your system that would > need to be removed to > > upgrade these. To see which one, do > > > > apt-get -s dist-upgrade > > > > the dist-upgrade will remove the necessary > packages to satisfy the > > conflicts. the -s option makes apt-get pretend to > do this, so you can > > see what package(s) will be removed. > > Alternatively > apt-get -u dist-upgrade > Will list the packages to be removed, and those to > be added as well as > those to upgrade and then ask whether you want to go > ahead. > > James > Well... I tried both ways, but they did not work - apt-get replied the same again, keeping back those packages and then telling nothing will be done; I suspect these packages might in fact be of unstable - which would be why apt-get refuses to touch them. Is there a way to check this? - Because I'm not at all sure of this. Thanks, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hwto play .mpg files
Hello everybody, I've got this small question, I downloaded some mpg files but I don't seem to have the correct prog to run them. I've got mplayer, MPlayer 0.90rc4-2.95.4 but it can't run them. What program should I use for that? Thanks for any help, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hwto play .mpg files
--- Klaus Imgrund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:02:55 -0800 > Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > I've got this small question, I downloaded some > mpg > > files but I don't seem to have the correct prog to > run > > them. > > > > I've got mplayer, MPlayer 0.90rc4-2.95.4 but it > can't > > run them. > > > Mplayer should work with them if you got win32 > codecs in /usr/lib/win32 > installed. > > Klaus > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I've installed xine... installed the win32 codecs... but things are still not working. Well, that is to say, not all of the mpg's are working. According to the file prog, one mpg file is of the "MPEG system stream data" - this one is functioning allright. Another of type "Apple QuickTime movie file (moov)" with the extension .mpg won't function. Mplayer responds: -- Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)QuickTime/MOV file format detected. -- MOV track #0: 1 chunks, 0 samples Generic track - not completly understood! (id: 0) -- MOV: longest streams: A: #-1 (0 samples) V: #-1 (0 samples) No stream found. -- What does this mean ? Mplayer still doesn't seem to know what to do with the file. Note that it's not just a problem with support for the "Apple QuickTime movie file (moov)" format, as files with a .mov extension and that type are working without a prob. Thanks, Joris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Howto find the Agfa SnapScan 1212p
Hello Everybody, I have got this problem: I have an Agfa SnapScan 1212p scanner - but I don't know how to make Debian woody see and communicate with it. I did a small search on "Linux Agfa SnapScan 1212" with few results. Can anybody tell me what I should do to get Linux to work with the scanner ? Thanks for any help, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howto find the Agfa SnapScan 1212p
--- Donald Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hello Everybody, > > > > I have got this problem: I have an Agfa SnapScan > > 1212p scanner - but I don't know how to make > Debian > > woody see and communicate with it. > > > > I did a small search on "Linux Agfa SnapScan 1212" > > with few results. > > > > Can anybody tell me what I should do to get Linux > to > > work with the scanner ? > > > > Thanks for any help, > > > > Joris Huizer > > > > I took a quick look, and it looks like that > particular scanner is a > parallel-port model that uses a "proprietary" > protocol. AGFA will not > release any specs, so there is no Linux support > under SANE it appears. > Here is the site I was looking at: > > http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html > > You might want to poke around the SANE home pages, > especially under the > supported scanners pages, but it doesn't look > good.... > > Cheers, > -Don Spoon- > Hello Don Spoon, I had a look at SANE, but indeed, the scanner isn't even listed so I guess there is really no support :-( Well, thanks for the help, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
new mozilla version in stable ?
Hello everybody, I heard of a friend there is a way to get a newer version than 1.0.0 in the stable Debian - but I can't find it. Can anybody tell me what to add to the /etc/apt/sources.list ? Thanks for any help, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best mp32ogg encoding/decoding
Hello everybody, I've just found something weird: I first tried to write a mp32ogg script using an mp32wav script I found (sorry I didn't write down the URL). This works great and the output's smaller than mp3s Then, today, I tried the mp32ogg at http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/mp32ogg.html, assuming such a program should be much better than my own silly script - but instead of that, it takes at least as much time, and the output is much bigger As an example: mp3 file : 3.4M ogg file via script: 3.0M ogg file via prog : 4.2M Anybody an idea why this is so? Regards, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com mp32wav Description: mp32wav mp32ogg Description: mp32ogg
Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks
--- "Alfredo J. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Lun 24 Mar 2003 10:06, Larry escribio': > (...) > > On the other hand, I've found the system to > function > > extrememly well, and be marvilously stable. Once > > installed, it is easy to upgrade and install > > applications on. So the big hump, unfortunately, > is > > at the very beginning. > > (Putting on my anti-flame suit) > > Mandrake copied the RH installer at the early > stages. Even the RH 5 installer > would be a big advancement. How hard would it be to > "debianize" that > installer? > > Regards. > > -- > Alfredo J. Cole > http://www.acyc.com > http://www.clshonduras.com > > I think the Debian installing system is friendly enough - the only problems I've had were about configuring hardware - but the only way to get around those kind of problems would be autodetection of hardware stuff which - as I was told - isn't allways a good idea __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
repartitioning: joining two partitions
Hello everybody, I have the following question: I have four partitions: /, /tmp, /usr, /home Is it possible to change the situation so that the /tmp partition space becomes part of the /home (so the /tmp is a normal folder in / ) ? It's usually hardly used and I could use some space for my personal stuff. Oh, and what is the name of the partition program Debian uses during the installation? If possible, I'd like to use that one for this Thanks for any help, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
defragmentation on M$ disc?
Hello everybody, I'm wondering, is 't possible to "defragmentate" a M$ disc while running in Debian? I want to make a partition there to try debian/testing (I'm running Woody right now but some things are a bit old :-p ) , and I read the M$ disc needs to be "defragmentated" in order to do repartitioning without having to worry about losing information (is this correct?) Now the stupid windows defragmentation tool keeps restarting as other stupid programs are writing so it'd take ages to defragmentate a disc of 40 GB :-P So I want to know wether this can be done under linux (I can mount the disc without a problem) Thanks for any help, Joris Huizer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Detecting the fysical mouse URGENT
Hi everybody, As some of you allready knows I've got many problems to get an USB mouse working (I only have that USB mouse) I allready posted this before but I got not even one reply on it so I think most of you must have missed it or something. I'm kind of sure The mouse is not at all found be Debian - so something is very wrong - missing a driver or whatever, unfortunately I just don't have an idea what it is - or what I should do to get it fixed :-( I found I still have got some boot info of Redhat, which was in use on this computer before I installed Debian. I included a tar file which includes: - mouse-log-debian.txt: a part of the actual /var/log/kern.log file - mouse-log-redhat.txt: the text redhat gave when booting (where the mouse worked successfully) I typed in the text in mouse-log-redhat.txt - so it may contain typo's. Maybe you can compare them and than give (specific) pointers at what should be my actions to get the mouse to work - comparing is very hard for me as I don't know what everything means. Please tell me specificly what to do - I'm kind of get the feeling I know no nothing about hardware related stuff ... :-S Thanks in advance for any help Joris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com logs.tar Description: logs.tar
Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?
> > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so > long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian to these > levels that all of you are at? > > Just curious... > >:o) > > Scott (sidewalking) I'm studying Informatica in Leiden, Holland :-) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Detecting the fysical mouse Solved !
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > The Human Interface Driver (HID) appears to not be > loading on Debian. > Try "modconf", and then insert the "hid" module. See > if that helps. > > Kent > Allright !! - that did the job! :-) Thanks to everybody who's helped on this prob! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sound server message on startup
Hello, I'm getting an error on startup about a sound driver : - Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permissioned denied) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. -- I read like this - it seems only the root and "users in the same group" (the second rw- entry right ?) can use it: - jorishuizer@debian:~$ ls -lh /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp - I don't exactly know what this /dev/dsp is - is it save to change the rights by using "chmod 644" ? Thanks in advance, Joris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
setup ofr the printer
Hello, I know you can print a file using lpr and configuration could be done using lpd - but lpd is not present. I've got a Lexmark Z31 printer. Although it seems to be a "windows only" printer I had a driver for redhat before. Is there a driver and/or a howto for the printer configuration available ? Thanks in advance, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
restart / shutdown by normal user
Hello, In the current (default) settings restarting & shutting down is only allowed for the root user; How can I change that so normal users can shut down (restart) ? Thanks. Joris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setup ofr the printer
--- Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get install printtool OK I've done that. When I run printtool, I get warnings: - Samba not installed - ncpfs not installed And then in the main window of printtool the text: "lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry type unrecognized" I think that may be related to the missing programs Sanba/ncpfs - which one should I install ? Or what should I do ? > > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 11:56, Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I know you can print a file using lpr and > > configuration could be done using lpd - but lpd is > not > > present. > > > > I've got a Lexmark Z31 printer. Although it seems > to > > be a "windows only" printer I had a driver for > redhat > > before. > > > > Is there a driver and/or a howto for the printer > > configuration available ? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Joris Huizer > > > > __ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > now. > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > > Craig Jackson > __ > Wildnet Group LLC > 103 North Park, Suite 110 > Covington, Lousiana 70433 > Office 985-875-9453 > __ > > __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setup ofr the printer
--- Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You may want to install mpage and will need samba if > it is a > windows-shared printer. > > ncpfs I believe is for netware-shared printers. > > That first lp printer is a dummy entry and can be > safely deleted. > > Use printtool to autodetect your printer. > I tried the printtool, but it won't work :-S I first tried the autodetect but the prog doesn't seem to find the printer - then I tried just adding it - but the Lexmark Z31 is not in the list of printers ?? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fonts & sizes
Hello, This is probably a bit silly but I really can't find how to change the size of menu texts etc. I think they are a bit too big but I don't find how I can change them ?? (I'm using the gdm) thanks Joris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fonts & sizes
Where can I change the -dpi parameter of X ? --- Gee Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > applications -> preferences -> fonts allows you > change the font size of > gnome2 apps. > > you could also look into the -dpi parameter of X. > xdpyinfo will show > the current setting. increase it to get smaller > fonts. this works one > works globally. > > gee. > > On 2003.01.21 09:07 Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This is probably a bit silly but I really can't > find > > how to change the size of menu texts etc. > > I think they are a bit too big but I don't find > how I > > can change them ?? (I'm using the gdm) > ... > -- > Gee Law gee(at)dizzyduck(dot)uklinux(dot)net __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dosemu probs
Hello, I've tried installing dosemu - but as my apt-get didn't find any I did use another dosemu .. not really working Now I found the dosemu of debian - because it keeps erroring it seems stuff is still there even though I tried to remove it; how can I make sure the complete dosemu stuff currently swimming around in the comp is removed ? And how can I make sure all - or at least more - debian packages are found by apt-get ? regards, Joris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DOSEMU PROBS
Hello everybody, I've got some probs with dosemu; First I installed a dosemu from elsewhere but I couldn't get it to work so I removed it; I didn't install the debian version the first time because apt-get kept saying it couldn't find it (How can I make it find more packages such as dosemu ??) Anyway when I enter "dosemu" I get this -- DOSEMU will run on _this_ terminal. To exit you need to execute 'exitemu' from within DOS, because -C and 'exit' won't work! Note, that DOS needs 25 lines and xterm per default has only 24, so you might want to enlarge it before continuing. Hint: if you want $HOME as DOS drive D:, use '-home' option Now type ENTER to start DOSEMU or C to cancel\n Hitting enter gets me here: Linux DOS emulator 1.0.2.1 $Date: 2001/10/13 $ Last configured at Sat Mar 23 09:22:41 EST 2002 on linux Sorry, there is no operating system. Have a nice day! I've got no idea what this mess means - I do know the thing won't respond to anything after that :-( What should I do to get dosemu working ? Thanks in advance, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DOSEMU PROBS
I found this page: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/dosemu.html which tells how to set up the dosemu stuff... The program I'm trying to run (a dos game named "starball") still doesn't work - maybe because of the lack of support for sound. If anybody can tell me how to make sound work I'd like that - otherwise.. It's not really urgent regards, Joris --- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:53:16AM -0800, Joris > Huizer wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I've got some probs with dosemu; > > First I installed a dosemu from elsewhere but I > > couldn't get it to work so I removed it; > > I didn't install the debian version the first time > > because apt-get kept saying it couldn't find it > (How > > can I make it find more packages such as dosemu > ??) > > > > Anyway when I enter "dosemu" I get this > > > > -- > > > >DOSEMU will run on _this_ terminal. > >To exit you need to execute 'exitemu' from > within > > DOS, > >because -C and 'exit' won't work! > > > >Note, that DOS needs 25 lines and xterm per > default > > has only 24, > >so you might want to enlarge it before > continuing. > > > > > >Hint: if you want $HOME as DOS drive D:, use > > '-home' option > > > >Now type ENTER to start DOSEMU or C to > > cancel\n > > > > > > > > Hitting enter gets me here: > > > > > > > > Linux DOS emulator 1.0.2.1 $Date: 2001/10/13 $ > > Last configured at Sat Mar 23 09:22:41 EST 2002 on > > linux > > > > Sorry, there is no operating system. > > Have a nice day! > > > > > > > > I've got no idea what this mess means - I do know > the > > thing won't respond to anything after that :-( > > > > What should I do to get dosemu working ? > > It's a prediction. It's telling you that you can't > use DOS, so you're > going to have a nice day. :-) > > Is it not the case that, for copyright reasons or > similar, what dosemu > actually provides is an environment in which you can > install an actual > DOS, and DOS then thinks it's running on its own PC? > A virtual machine > thingy? > > So, this is a slightly more friendly version of > "Missing operating > system", and you have to install DOS in your dosemu. > > I'd try it myself, but my dosemu .deb is broken > (dodgy CD drive). > > Pigeon > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome 1.4 or gnome 2 ??
Hello everybody, Just a quick question: Why is gnome 1.4 installed by default rather than gnome 2 ? Are there security reasons or whatever ? Oh, and how can I install gnome 2 if there are no (serious) problems ? Thanks :-) Joris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome 1.4 or gnome 2 ??
Well ok - everybody is saying just stick with gnome 1.4 so I'll use that one (or the fluxbox I recently installed) - thanks for the replies :-) --- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:24:29PM -0800, Joris > Huizer wrote: > > Just a quick question: > > Why is gnome 1.4 installed by default rather than > > gnome 2 ? Are there security reasons or whatever ? > > If you're using stable (woody?), then it's because > stable always lags > behind for the sake of stability and reliability. > This is normal. > > If you must be bleeding edge, then go with unstable > (sid), or if you > want to be ahead of the game but not part of the > lunatic fringe, try > testing (sarge). > > If you're a newbie, stick with stable, it'll give > you the least grief, > even if it's a little behind the times. Be sure you > have the Debian > security updates in your sources.list and > occasionally do > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get > autoclean > > -- > .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : :' :proud Debian admin and user > `. `'` > `- Debian - when you have better things to do > than to fix a system > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
